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Article #9041Re: space news from March 27 AW&ST
From: Matthew DeLuca
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 13:56
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 13:56
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In article <1989May11.202243.1111@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >No damage that I know of. It's overweight and well below normal orbiter >specs, but that's another story. If you did a thorough refit on it, you >could theoretically fly it into space, although payload would be low due >to the overweight structure. The very fact that it *is* overweight would be a problem in new landing tests, since landing weight is very important when it comes to landing gear and braking. My guess is that, yes, we could refit it and use it for landing tests, but the data would not be fully indicative of the performance of the flight shuttle. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Matthew DeLuca : Georgia Institute of Technology : [This space for rent] ARPA: ccoprmd@hydra.gatech.edu : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!sun-barr!apple!bloom-beacon!gatech!prism!ccoprmd From: ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: space news from March 27 AW&ST Message-ID: <655@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 12 May 89 13:56:06 GMT References: <1989May8.033250.18780@utzoo.uucp> <15988@bellcore.bellcore.com> <6390@cbnews.ATT.COM> <52000@philabs.Philips.Com> <1989May11.202243.1111@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca) Followup-To: sci.space Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 17